Pain…

It was all Moyo could feel as he woke up from the forced sleep his brain had put him under,

Agony…

It was what he could feel again as he woke, his body screamed in abject pain as he could feel every place where the wood splinters and metal tore and lodged in his body and the ever-present darkness that reminded him his eyes had been blown out of his eyes, how the fuck was he even still alive?!.

Shifting a bit as the pain blew out again and he grew close to blanking out, well, he thought he was seeing as he couldn’t tell and only somehow knew it,

Son of Agony(U) level 2!

Son of Agony(U) level 3!....

Son of Agony(U) level 10!

From somewhere in the darkness these glowing words sprang up in his mind eye in gold letters and with a ding. Moyo began to feel the pain somehow reduce, his broken bones weren’t mending but he could feel the pain receding. At that point when he could somehow think, everything crashed into him at once, his mother dying, the message from the strange being, his current predicament. Moyo was this close to screaming out in anguish, but a dominant part of his mind reminded him that if indeed he was in a new reality, shouting in a place he had no idea of and being blind and unable to protect himself was a very foolish mistake.

Biting his tongue till he could feel pain burst out in his mouth, another ding sounded in his head,

Son of Agony(U) level 11!

Feeling the pain in his tongue vanish, he took a minute to be calm, his mind beginning to assess the situation, accepting the fact that he was in some game-like reality. Every game world had a character stats screen and like magic, another ding resounded in his mind, this time with a list of personal things moyo assumed where his stats table,

Name: Moyosore

Path: none

Race: human

Level: 1

Stage: fledgling

Skills: son of Agony(U) 11

Staring at it with his mind eyes, Moyo noted a few things were different from the average game stat table, for one the usual strength, endurance, etc were missing, or maybe he was that weak that the system deemed it unnecessary for now, again a ding sounded,

Note: currently you do not have a body core, therefore tempering of the body is currently unavailable!

Moyo bit his cheek this time in anger, grinding his teeth despite the obvious anger, no matter what it took, no matter what he had to do, he swore he would get stronger. He would play whatever deranged games the system wanted him to play currently, and when he had clawed his way to the top of whatever sick game this reality was, he would tear down those at the top that had decided to play with the lives of billions of people. His attention was gotten again by another ding

Congratulations!, a certain benefactor in the collective, benefactor XXXX has decided to give you a skilled gift, accept?

Moyo paused, the meaning of the notice floating in his mind. Was someone watching him? and if so, could this be a trap?. Snorting to himself, he had nothing of value, he was currently a nobody and not in a position to deny gifts, therefore he mentally clicked yes,

Congratulations!, passive skill blood absorption(u) has been obtained!

Error….

Moyos' heart stopped for a bit, was another tragedy about to hit him?

Certain parameters are affecting said skill, taking them into effect,

The individual is in a level 50 battle dungeon!...calculating…

The individual is the first of his species to enter such a dungeon…. calculating.

Congratulations!, skill Blood Absorption(U) has evolved into the legendary skill Blood Absorption(L)!

Moyo felt both joy, dread, and disappointment at the same time, the joy that he had gotten a legendary skill and even though he had no idea what it currently meant, the word legendary promised great things. He felt dread because he was a level 1 character in a level 50 dungeon, it was close to a death sentence as he could ever get, and lastly, he felt disappointed because it was a skill that he couldn’t currently use. Considering his next step, another ding sounded, sighing internally, he was getting tired of that sound,

Congratulations!, you are the first in your world to get a legendary skill and as such you’ve been awarded 1000 legendary aether shards!

A clinking sound like fallen glass echoed throughout the cavern Moyo suspected he was in, feeling around till his hands touched the warm crystal-like substance that hummed with energy, a notice came to his mind's eye

Aether shards: these crystallized form of aether which is the building blocks of the archailect are the primary energy source of the archailect! the crystallized form is given to those on the stages of fledgling to acolyte to be as these stages can’t tap into the ambient aether in the air to refine for the various energy sources of their paths through their cores. They come in different levels, each more potent than the next, ranging from common to legendary!

Another smile came on his face as he considered the implications of these words, he had hit the jackpot, notwithstanding that he currently had no cores, he could keep the crystals till he did and legendary ones at that!. Sighing and trying to finally settle down, two roars broke through the air as two big creatures broke into the cavern with a broken and disabled Moyo unable to move….

Somewhere else a portal opened as a man with a shaggy beard, rough dreadlock hair, and bulging muscles appeared, a weird gold-looking blade sat on his back with a thin golden chain which was attached to it and locked to his wrist in the form of a manacle glanced around, golden eyes taking his surroundings. He shivered in irritation and not cold even though the snow was falling all around him, his eyes finally saw a glowing red portal in his front swirling on its own, his shaggy eyebrows shot up,

“a level 50 dungeon?!, What the fuck was he thinking?!” he said shaking his head as he walked towards it, his every footstep seemed to warp space around him a little bit like reality was trying not to bend to his will and barely managing to do so,

“Better not be a waste of my time, bloody rulers” he growled to himself as he passed through the barrier of the dungeon that tried denying him access but broke effortlessly,

The same dungeon Moyo was stuck inside….